Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1005: Fishing (2)

Naturally, Su Yu heard the same claim as well.

He was quite surprised.

That was a familiar voice.

He had met Zhu Guangshen before. Thus, he was able to quickly recall who the voice belonged to. He was surprised, but his mood also improved slightly. Someone from Great Ming was here. Zhu Tiandao's eldest son was here.

He had claimed two hundred spots on behalf of Knowledge Seeking Realm. Sure, humanity still had a smaller number of spots compared to the other major races, but at the very least, the total claim of humanity had increased to around six hundred spots. It didn't matter if they could ultimately get all those spots. At the very least, they had to show some backbone even if they couldn't say something domineering like humanity would take all the eastern spots.

They simply weren't strong enough to make such a claim. Sure, the person from War Shrine had tried to make that claim, but as a result, he had his face slapped. The others in Su Yu's group were not too concerned about the allocation of spots. All of them were talking in excitement.

"All the spots have been reserved. Sigh, it sure is tough being a minor race. Looks like all the other races can only fight over the leftovers and the special entrance."

"Why did they make their claim so early this time? With this, the other races can't even dream of getting more spots anymore."

"What do you mean? Things have always been this way. It's fine. When the time comes, the myriad races will force the humans to give up on some of their spots. They won't be able to get six hundred spots. They will probably be left with around three to four hundred spots."

"..."

Suddenly, Su Yu heard something interesting.

"I heard you can actually try entering through the special entrance if you have ancient city medallions. I wonder if we can buy those medallions somewhere and what's the price."

"Yes, you can. But the price is crazy. With the next opening being so near, it won't be that easy to get your hands on one."

"..."

Ancient city medallion? Su Yu's eyes flickered. That was something he had. Or to be precise, he was in possession of many of them. But most of them were merely low-level medallions. Even the best he had was only a sixteenth ring medallion. He remembered that his Teacher Liu seemed to have run off after gathering a few high-level medallions. So one could actually enter the mansion through the special entrance with these medallions?

Su Yu had never heard of that. He needed to do his research later. It was obvious quite a lot of people were aware of this. Then again, that wasn't surprising since the mansion would open every ten years. For many cultivators, that was only a short period of time. In fact, some experts might have remained in the city since the previously opening.

"Zhu Guangshen is here..."

Soon, Su Yu thought of a different matter.

Wasn't that fellow supposed to be staying in the Knowledge Seeking Realm? Why was Zhu Guangshen here? Was that fellow here for the Luminous Domain Mansion? Or perhaps that fellow was here to save him? Was Great Ming still trying to save him? That was pointless.

Great Ming alone wouldn't be enough to protect him. Was Great Ming King going to speak up for him alone? That would do nothing. A single Invincible could not represent the entire race.

Su Yu sighed inwardly. He told himself to keep this favor in his heart. If Zhu Guangshen wasn't here for him, so be it. But if that was the case, Zhu Guangshen should just leave when possible. There was no need to drag Great Ming into this mess.

If Su Yu really wanted to rely on others, he would have returned with Umbra previously. He did not do that because he didn't want to drag others down. He was a very pragmatic person, but deep inside, his values were very simple. If one was kind to him, he would be kind in return. If one was unkind to him, he would repay it.

"Just don't get in the way of my plan."

He tossed the matter to the back of his mind. For now, he had to first get his hands on the copies of the two rankings. Then, he would start his plan to capture Tianduo. He had to get started with his plan.

As for all the other matters, such as the strength of humanity, the crisis humanity might be in, and the infighting of humanity...that had nothing to do with him. Up until now, apart from Great Ming, nobody had done anything for him.

Right, Great Xia did help him slightly. During the ancient city incident, Principal Zheng had arrived as well. As for Great Qin, their stance was still rather ambiguous for now.

As for the other prefectures and Invincibles, he had not sensed any kindness from them. None of them had expressed any desire to help him. So be it. He didn't need their help either.

"At most, I'll just repay anyone who has helped me tenfold when I gain enough strength to do so. As for everyone else, their fate does not concern me."

Even if humanity ended up destroyed, he could simply find a suitable minor realm and hide inside with his father and teachers. The Allheaven Battlefield was massive. There must be a suitable hiding place somewhere out there.

***

With the increasing defiance he was developing toward humanity, Su Yu decided to ignore the rest of humanity.

In fact, he was starting to see humanity the same way he viewed the myriad races. He would judge people on an individual basis instead of being blindly supportive of humanity. Again and again, humanity had disappointed him, turning him from a hot-blooded youth to a pragmatic youth.

That was especially true when he recalled what Zhu Tiandao once told him. Humanity did not lack multiple character cultivators. There were actually more multiple character cultivators out there who were not members of his faction. From that moment, Su Yu had realized that his faction was not as important to humanity as he had believed. For the rest of humanity, they were nothing.

When he reached the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's branch, he made his request directly, "Give me a copy of the Dao Affirmation Ranking."

"A hundred drops of source qi liquid."

"..."

Damn these greedy bastards!

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was as greedy as ever. Su Yu swore inwardly that one day, he would get everything he had spent on them back.

He did not bother haggling. After searching his storage ring, he made the payment with some source qi liquid, Skysoar corpses, and the random materials he had gathered during his travels.

What could he do if he was cash-poor? Soon, he received a crude piece of paper with the ranking on it.

Dao Affirmation Ranking.

The rank sounded amazing, but the material they used for this was quite unworthy of such a grand name.

A short introduction was given at the top of the page:

There are too many experts among the myriad races. This list only represents the opinion of a single party and it might be incomplete. This list is only meant to serve as a point of reference instead of the absolute truth. This is a compilation of individuals with the highest chance of achieving dao affirmation based on the known history and past accomplishments of these individuals.

The higher the rank, the higher the chance of dao affirmation, and the stronger the individual is believed to be.

1st on the rank: Soulcurse, celestial chasm race.

2nd on the rank: Endless Passage, fate race.

3rd on the rank: Blankspace, ancient spatial beast race.

4th on the rank: September, iron devourer race.

5th on the rank: Xia Longwu, human race.

…

Su Yu was quite surprised. The list was very simple. Only the rank, the name, and the race were stated. Nothing else.

Xia Longwu was actually ranked fifth.

And those above him weren't even divines and devils like Su Yu had imagined. Rather, they were all members of ancient races. There was even an iron devourer up there.

Su Yu wasn't too surprised to see that Xia Longwu wasn't at the very top. But were all these people really on the verge of dao affirmation? Also, the celestial chasm race actually had a super expert on the verge of dao affirmation? And this person was actually ranked first. Was this person basically a pseudo Invincible?

He continued reading. There were a hundred names on the list. Apart from Xia Longwu, he saw another familiar name. It was Zhou Polong at the 97th place. And finally, at the very bottom of the list was Qin Zhen, yet another familiar name to him. There were three humans among the hundred.

Xia Longwu was the highest ranked human. But the rest of the humans were actually ranked at the very bottom of the list.

Su Yu also noted that the major races like the immortals, devils, and divines didn't even dominate this list. Rather, he saw a lot of experts from the minor and ancient races. Upon noticing that, he sank into contemplation. After a while, he sighed.

He was starting to understand something. It was very likely that the divines and devils were the masterminds behind the Allheaven Treasure House. Thus, they might be keeping their own experts secret.

As for the humans they listed, those were the individuals everyone already knew. And Zhu Tiandao wasn't even on the list. Perhaps he would be able to see Old Zhu's name if the list included nine hundred or a thousand names. Old Zhu sure was pitiful.

Su Yu also felt like Xia Longwu's rank was a tad bit too high. Perhaps the divines and devils were deliberately doing this to turn him into the common enemy of the myriad races.

Furthermore, it wasn't necessarily a good thing for Soulcurse of the celestial chasm race to be the top ranker. Su Yu also found Ancient Mountain's name on the list. His name was right above Qin Zhen, occupying the 99th place.

In that case, Ancient Mountain was most likely doing quite badly since he was so strong yet his mount was only a hawk at the third-stage Sunmoon Realm. Just look at the second principal. His mount was a late-stage Sunmoon from the dragon race.

Su Yu shook his head disapprovingly. But he was only reading this list for fun. Next, he went to the Allheaven Treasure House and used the useless items on him to purchase a copy of the Heavenly Hunt Index. Sure enough, the index had changed since he last checked it.

The top three of the Heaven Index remained the same, but Dao Cheng had dropped in rank.

Ming Yue of the nether race had climbed to the fourth place while Xuan Wuji was at the fifth place. Meanwhile, Dao Cheng had fallen to the sixth place. At this rate, he would probably fall off the Heaven Index entirely if he didn't perform any new accomplishments soon.

As for Topsoil Spirit, he had climbed all the way to the fifth place of the Earth Index. Surprisingly, Su Yu saw Wu Lan's name at the very top of the Yellow Index. No, that wasn't the name he was most surprised to see. There was an extremely inconspicuous name in the Yellow Index. 359th on Yellow Index, Liu Hong.

"..."

Su Yu was completely dumbstruck.

Liu Hong?

Was that someone else with the same name?

Or was that really the same Liu Hong from Great Xia?

Was this a joke?

Was that fellow actually good enough to enter the index?

This was a ranking system for the myriad races. Su Yu himself had initially entered the ranking thanks to his identity as an earth weaponsmith. How did Liu Hong get into the index as well?

Past accomplishments: Killing a fifth-stage Cloudbreach.

Was this a joke? As far as he remembered, Liu Hong was only a second-stage Cloudbreach. Did that fellow kill someone above his level? In truth, Liu Hong was quite young. He was thirty, or probably twenty-nine.

Su Yu couldn't remember for sure. At that age, it was indeed possible for one to enter the index after killing someone above their level. It would be much harder if one was older.

"Liu Hong..."

Su Yu checked the description and noted that this Liu Hong was from Great Xia as well. So there were two people with the same name in the same prefecture? That would be way too coincidental. It was more likely that this was indeed the same Liu Hong he knew.

Holy shit! Su Yu remembered that the last time they met, this fellow was still busy scamming everyone in Great Xia. How had that fellow gone from swindling in Great Xia to entering the index in the Allheaven Battlefield?

Even during his time in the ancient city, Liu Hong had yet to enter the index. Thus, this must have happened recently. Was that fellow really in the Allheaven Battlefield?

"Is it possible that...he was forced to flee the Human Realm after his scam was exposed?"

Su Yu had a very high suspicion that he was right.

Liu Hong was not the type of person to actually take risks. Su Yu couldn't understand how that fellow had somehow gathered the courage to actually scam the descendants of Invincibles.

Oh, there was also a third familiar name on the index.

3rd on Profound Index, Shan Xiong.

He was a first-stage Cloudbreach who had killed a seventh-stage Cloudbreach to enter the index. He was already on the index previously, but only the Yellow Index. Thus, he must have entered the Allheaven Battlefield recently as well.

That was yet another genius who was still quite young. His new rank signified that he was quite strong as someone capable of punching quite far above his level.